Thoughts and commentary about the janitorial and office cleaning business.

11/23/2012

Actions have consequences

Just got back from Thanksgiving dinner at my little sister's, up the road in Flagstaff, with extended family and friends.

Included was Audry, a French gal I hadn't seen since my niece's wedding a couple of years ago. First met Audry when she was a high school foreign exchange student living with my sister's family. She liked Arizona, so she came back to college here, at the University of Arizona, studying something high-tech that is a bit beyond me; she then worked a bit, I gather still on her student visa, at a high level job for Microsoft in the San Fransiscoarea. Eventually, either the visa expired or the Feds caught her, and she was thrown out of the country. Moved to Ireland (then in the middle of its boom). Corporate America being more loyal and valuing people more than does our federal government, Microsoft moved her job with her to Dublin. Audry gets to America as a tourist as often as she can, and would love to move here, but there is still a long line in front of her.

So we've thrown away a decent, highly educated (by us), high performing gal - exactly the type we ought be recruiting if we want a decent, prosperous society.

On another note, met a distant in-law from Las Vegas. She is originally from California, but is gradually moving her business to Nevada to escape California's punishing tax code - and this before California voters raised taxes on the "wealthy" in November's election. Seems that California voters think that by raising tax rates, they'll increase tax revenue, rather than collecting less revenue from a smaller economy. And our president is aiming to do the same thing on a national level.

We've offered janitorial services in Phoenix since 1974; hold the BBB's A-plus rating; and have long been in the forefront of the industry in environmentally sensitive cleaning for health, safety and security. Our office cleaning program can generally improve Indoor Air Quality, in the size range of most allergens, by a factor of 50%, as reflected in our ongoing IAQ sampling. We also furnish Green Seal certified recycled restroom paper products and janitorial supplies.